“[A serialist]… checks the relevance of the information entering his list by forming single predicate hypotheses …. A structure is built up in orderly stages.”

— Gordon Pask

Source: Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972), p. 273 as cited in: IEEE (1982) International Conference on Man/Machine Systems, 6-9 July 1982. p. 85.

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